Feb. 25, 2026

Experiences & Freedom – Did We Lose?

Experiences & Freedom – Did We Lose?
Experiences & Freedom – Did We Lose?
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Experiences & Freedom – What Did We Lose? We had a conversation about something simple. Back in the 80s, if you wanted music, you waited for it. If you wanted to see someone, you went to their house. If you wanted something big, you saved for it.

Now everything’s instant. Music. Movies. Shopping. Even conversations. That’s not a rant. It’s just different. So we asked a real question: Did effort make things feel more meaningful? And another one: Did we feel freer when nobody could reach us 24/7? No nostalgia goggles.

No “the 80s were perfect” talk. Just an honest discussion about speed, pressure, convenience, and whether something subtle changed along the way. That’s it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to Back to the

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Eighties Radio hosted by none other than Tuscano and Chang.

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We are back for the attack tonight. We are going

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to cover things that you never wanted to hear. Get

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your big boy pants on, put the kids to bed,

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give yourself a cold stiff one, tell the wife to

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make hot chocolate, and put some brandy. Boys and girls,

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Ladies and gentlemen, cats and kiddies. I give you the

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number one, I Italian Stallion, my partner in crime, the

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one in oly Next I can it Dahlia, No, and

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don't tell Ice. That wouldn't be very nice. Give it up.

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Well, mister Tuscano, Oh well, what a welcome Chang, and

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what a what a soothing voice you have there today.

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You know, I'm not used to it. Actually, I was

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expecting on hate coming my way. But it's not. It's gone,

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It's not here, present in twenty twenty six, and I

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love it.

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As a matter of fact, me and the missus Chang

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are on a quest to find valuable proof that there

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is a sasquatch. That's right, not Santa claus A YETI yes, sasquatch.

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Now we did have a brief encounter with a being

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we could not explain. We were out on the path.

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We thought we found some new excrement of sasquatch, but

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we got the video set up. I threw some bait

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out to see it. Would you know, bite some baloney sandwiches.

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Right, because that's what sasquatch eats, boloney sandwiches.

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Yes, and slim jims.

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So did you run into missus?

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No, we we ran into a bean we call tweak squatch.

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Now what this ended up being, This was only a hairy,

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homeless man naked, was on crystal meth. That's that's pretty

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much what we saw. So I'm going to I'm going

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to claim a new bean, the tweak Squatch.

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Tweak Squatch. If you're listening to Back to the Eighties Radio,

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your number one fan the chain is looking for you.

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Thank you for joining us here and Back to the

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Eighties Radio. We're gonna have a great show. We are

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gonna be talking about when we come back, the experiences

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and the freedom we had back then versus today. Hey,

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this is Laurie Miller from the first and original Expose

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and you're listening to Back to the Eighties Radio ten

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nine eight and six five more.

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Than one.

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What even gentlemen rock and roll on TV. It's in

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heralded as fresh and innovative and criticized for being shallow.

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When MTV first hit, this was the biggest talk in

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the universe.

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MTV drop of grenade into our world.

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Everybody was watching MTV. People had to unline the radio.

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TV made international stars almost overnight.

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We had no idea what was going to happen because

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of MTV gave a.

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Visual representation to the artist that they did not have before.

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But you never looked at music the same way.

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Again, that's the doble and what's your night, il cruisie

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age night.

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And that everything.

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I had no id on RAINI.

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You gave them those old time stops.

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Rules, the words.

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You made barbos, you lay plan, you lay in the fray.

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You made a screen that.

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So down, made some backgrounds, the back dumb girls bases, undo,

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I just down't care.

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And just up plays. When you up, you time your pa,

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you mus.

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Your style, all wars you'll come.

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Don't go, lady, You'll go God only.

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Dear mister lady, He'll go.

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Maady, you'll go buy your lot bay So.

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S we watched the soon we watched the stars all

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the ai.

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Fur hours and we have.

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Jesus rs homies change stood.

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Let's t.

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Leave all friends like bards on me to say must listen?

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Will you.

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You you.

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Your way.

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Already?

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Aries Rady, you got Brady, you'll go go Rady, you

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got go already, Aris Rady, you got ready. I'll go

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go Rady, you got go already? Aris Rady, you come, Rady,

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You'll go.

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Your mot snare you.

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So scar.

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Time.

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Welcome back to back to the radio with some radio

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gaga from Queen in nineteen eighty four off the LP

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the Works.

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Yeah, Hey, do you know that this song was recorded

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in la at the Record Plant studio and it was

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recorded in eighty three nine eighty four, but it was

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released in eighty four. We do have a very special

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guest coming up in the program, mister Mark Martel, the

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voice of Freddie Mercury, who's going to be in concert

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this coming Saturday in Los Angeles at the Wilshire Ebel. Hey,

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if you can go out there and watch them, the

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tickets are very very accessible, so you got to get

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out there and watch this. But yeah, Mark Martel's going

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to be on the show, so stick around.

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That would be a fantastic show to go to. I

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wish I was going.

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I tell you right now, the tickets are less than

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forty bucks.

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Mark Martel and Queen. Tell us a little bit about

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what you thought of that album.

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Bro, You know when I heard Radio Googa for the

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first time was actually from the live Aid concert. To me,

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probably Freddie Mercury's greatest moment on stage. You know, I

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have to agree with you and thousands of others. I

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think that Queen had to come out strong. They hadn't

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been performing, they hadn't been live for a while. Freddie Mercury,

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I believe, was a hero battling age. He never let

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onto it. He kept fighting forth though. You have to

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give it up to Freddy Mercury.

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I think that was one of the greatest performances of

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that entire concert. Now, me and my buddy is my homeboys.

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We all watched the entire concert unfold in my house

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back in Montabello, California. We had tears in her eyes

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and we were a bunch of rockers. And I thought

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the album was somewhat poppy, but Cat I really like

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the artwork on the cover of the album. I thought

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the video didn't go with a song at all. But

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that's MTV right.

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Well, and here comes the hater. Here's a little fun

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fact for you, because Roger Taylor wrote that song. But

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the inspiration this is what a lot of people don't know.

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The inspiration for the song came because Taylor heard his

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own little son utter the words. So the son was

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listening to a song on the radio while they were

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in La. His son said radio kaka while listening to

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the bad song on the radio. And so after hearing

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the phrase, Roger immediately went into writing. He locked himself

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into the studio for three days with a synth and

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a drum machine. Freddie Mercury reconstructed the track and it

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became an incredible, incredible song that today makes you think, geez,

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what happened to radio?

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You know?

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Part of we're talking about experiences then and now. We

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waited by the radio. We recorded songs under cassettes. We

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bought entire albums, whether it be vinyl or cassette or CDs.

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We listened to the entire album and we didn't do

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it just to pass the time. You know, we actually

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paid attention. Some we liked, some we didn't like. The albums.

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Look today, Every song ever recorded is instantly available playlists.

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They're endless. But if you really look at it, and

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I know because it's happened to me too, we skip

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them sometimes in under ten seconds, and that is a

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stat that they have out there. The most tracks are

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skipped within ten seconds, and that's amazing. Part of music

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feeling better back then was the scarcity because we didn't

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have it all.

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You know.

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I'm sure there were places where you used to go

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buy music that sometimes they didn't have the album you

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were looking for. You'd have to go to different one.

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Remember that. Listen, let's take a quick break. I remember

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bringing a song with emotional tension, with long, with depth.

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I'm gonna bring you a song that breathes and builds,

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and it's not something that you skip in ten seconds.

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A song that talks about music and what music means

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for you. According to Bonto and you too, this is

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with or without you. I'm back to the eighties radio.

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See the stone set in your eyes, see the throng

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twist in your side always.

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For you, slive hand and to stove face on a

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bed of me, mixed me ways and I waits.

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We found you.

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Were fully thound. You were fall with fun.

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You.

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Through the storm, bitch less shot. You give it all,

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but I want more and I'm waiting to four years

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were fully thought you.

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Who were bowing? I can't leave. We're going with.

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Yourself where any yourself, any any any yourself.

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To tell.

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The body reach She got me wi nothing.

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To win and nothing live to anything yourself yourself any

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any yourself? Where we don't got you? Who go.

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Cocca go? We play recon juice.

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Never wish you could go back to the eighties with

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the crazy clothes and those wacky hairdoos. Well, let tescano

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and change and support you back in time, back to

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the eighties.

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She keeps some mooish in a pretty cabin. What's up,

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Los Angeles. I've got a pretty cool announcement. It's been

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a long time coming. It's been a long time since

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we've played Southern California, and we're bringing one vision of

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Queen to you at the Wilshire Ebel Theater. It's going

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to be an incredible night of rock and roll, celebrating

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one of the greatest bands of all time, like you've

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never probably seen or heard experience before. I'm gonna say

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that's a safe bet. Bring yourselves, bring your friends and

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those you love, because that's what people do for those

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they know and love. They bring them to one vision

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of Queen for a great net of rock and roll

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Southern California. Let's rock.

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All right.

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Back to the eighties family. You guys know that I

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don't get it easily excited, all right, I lied, I do.

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But this Saturday, February twenty eighth, at the Wiltshire Ebel

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Theater here in La the music of Queen and the

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catalog of Queen is coming back in a huge each

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way because joining me right now from down here to YouTube,

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to basically a changed life to working at Abbey Road.

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Mark Martel, Welcome to Back to the eighties radio man.

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I appreciate you.

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Really good to be here. I'm glad to chat about

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whatever you're wondering about.

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So listen, this is an all eighties radio show. Love

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it and we literally talk all eighties. So I read

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somewhere that your mom used to play Beethoven and choir

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music and be in a choir when you were a kid,

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and instead of falling asleep, you were sitting there analyzing

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the certain notes that they sounded. Fuller, talk to us

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a little bit about that.

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Yeah, so my earliest musical memories, like my mom even

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to this day, is the piano player and musical director

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choir director at my dad's church, small church up in

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near Montreal. And yeah, I she would play. She had

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this book. I think I own it now. It's this

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old classical, famous classical pieces piano book that she would

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read out of and just play out of it often

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at night as me and my two siblings were falling asleep.

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And yeah, I would remember. I remember her playing specifically

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the Moonlight Sonata, which is one of Beethoven's more famous pieces.

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And I had just started playing the piano. I was

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like five years old, and I could tell that the

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sound she was making with her hands was a lot

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heavier and fuller than mine. And so my brain was

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just automatically like a musical analytical brain, and I was like,

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I got to figure out how to make that sound.

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And you know, quickly realize that it's because her hands

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were bigger than mine. She could reach octaves, and you know,

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it wasn't until I got a little bigger that I

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could make that sound. And that's where I guess the

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first memory of me like analyzing sound or music is

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from that, I guess.

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So I'm assuming that when you're singing now, even with

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all your experience, that part of your brain still switches on.

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Then oh yeah, I can't turn it off.

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And it drives my wife nuts because I can't just

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listen to music for the enjoyment most of the time.

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I can, you know, certain artists, I can just leave

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them in the background and just enjoy the vibe.

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And all that.

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But yeah, musicians are kind of cursed with that analytical

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thing where you're always trying to learn from other artists

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and you know, trying to figure out how it all

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pieces together.

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When I asked this question, everybody's gonna go, what, we

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have no idea, But you do you still have that

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guitar from the estate sale.

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I don't. That's long gone. I lost track of that

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probably when I moved away from college, and I know

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mom and dad don't have it either, So it was

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kind of a piece of garbage.

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It really, it really it created those big, deep callousies. H.

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Yeah. I it was the first acoustic guitar I ever

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learned how to play, So maybe I got to take

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that with a grain of salt, But it tore up

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my fingers and it had a huge crack in it,

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you know on the front where the front meets the

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side that had tried to be repaired, and it, you know,

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it did the job. It prepared me for the future.

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But yeah, I have no idea where that guitar is.

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You've got the gospel roots. And here's something I didn't

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know you like. Keith Green.

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Oh man, my first musical obsession. Keith Green.

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For sure, you put this Love in My Heart is

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my favorite. Oh yeah, great tune.

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I don't know. I'd be surprised if there are any

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Keith Green songs I've never heard. I mean unless they're

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like rare recordings or anything like that. But I would

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just sit at the piano for hours and hours just

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learning his songs. And there's this guy down the street

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that went to our church who made a he had

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the vinyl of I guess maybe it was one of

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his greatest hits, his two greatest hits albums at the time,

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and he made a kissette recording for my mom and

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I to listen to. And I mean I tore that

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thing to piece as it was, I wore it out.

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I mean it was I just loved his passion and

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the way he used his voice and his piano playing,

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and I was like, that's what I want to do someday.

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I don't know if it's possible, but i'd sure love

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to do that someday.

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I can picture you playing. There's a song by Keithine

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called stained Glass Love that song. That's it. All right.

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Then you grow up in the eighties roughly right. You're

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a lot younger than I am, so you know, you

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didn't grow up that much in the eighties, but you

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did at the same time, and you're hearing George Michael. Yeah,

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do you know how old I am? You've got to

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be almost forty.

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Thanks, man, I'm almost fifty.

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No, yeah, oh my god, Well I just turned fifty

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four on the seventh. All right, so you're a little

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so a lot, a lot, but anyway, so George Michael.

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And then you grow up listening to the top forty

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when you're doing something like Radio Gaga for example, live

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where are you actually drawing from the church kid, the

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eighties pop kid, the rocker in you or all of

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the above. That's a good question.

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And you picked a song that I actually had never

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heard until I was picked to play in the art

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to be the lead singer of the official Queen Tribute band.

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There's a few, like really big queen songs that I

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just had I was zero aware of, like Love of

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My Life, which is many queen fans' favorite love song.

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So I could go down the list of songs that

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we play regularly that I literally learned to perform the

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song and I'd never heard it before. You know, I've

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always loved being on stage. I guess it didn't ever

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really matter to me if I was performing my song

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or someone else's song. And I've done both, and I've

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enjoyed doing both. And I just love of trying to

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do whatever I'm doing to the highest excellence as I can,

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and putting myself in the seat of someone watching my show,

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like what do I want to experience tonight? And if

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you're coming to my show as a queen fan wanting

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to hear Queen songs, I'm trying to give you the

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most accurate sonic experience as possible and also giving you

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the energy you're you're expecting from me as a lead

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singer without totally copying Freddie Mercury and and you know,

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trying to imitate him. Yeah, it's it's definitely just a

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vast variety of things I'm drawing from as far as

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my experience as a musician. Even sometimes I think about

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my brother who Who's He's a classic middle child. He's

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full of energy all the time. And you know, sometimes

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when I'm feeling tired, I just think about Dave and

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I'm just like, got gotta push through.

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Now.

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He was a hard rocker, right, Yeah, he introduced me

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to to like harder rock and roll like Metallica, ac DC,

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even grunge. And but yeah, he's two years young, two

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and a half years younger than me. I was more

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of the like you mentioned, like the more attainable, accessible

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pop top forties guy until my early teens.

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I mean a lot of people sing that are up

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there in the limelight. But to have that spirit in

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that soul that belongs to music, it is very hard

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to see nowadays. So we really commend you for that.

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Thank you.

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And there was there was a time that you almost

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didn't upload. I know, but since you did, has becoming

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so well known as you are now, has it become

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harder or more challenging than what you thought it was

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going to be when you were much younger.

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Yeah, it was a slow creep for me starting a

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band out of college. We started a Christian band, and

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you know, we just did We did the fifteen passenger

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van thing for like ten years, and you know, we

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did the make an album, go to the album, make

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an album, go to the album thing, and it was

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just a steady climb for many years. So there wasn't

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really a spike in that until I actually auditioned for

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Roger Taylor in twenty eleven. So I'm really thankful that

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I that spike in recognizability happened in my thirties instead

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of my twenties, and I was already married. I actually

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just I've been married for barely a year when that happened,

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So you know, I'm really glad that I had my

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wife as an anchor and the dudes i'd been in

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a band with for like twelve years when that happened. So,

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you know, it always makes me think of childhood Hollywood stars,

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and it's such a it's such a curse to be

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famous at a young age when you haven't really figured

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out who you are. So I'm thankful that that recognizability

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happened in my life. When it did, it was it

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was a fun ride. You know, I was able to

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really appreciate it for what it was at the very

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big beginning when my video went viral, my audition for

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Roger Taylor went viral. You know, I was definitely obsessed

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with reading the YouTube comments because I had never received

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so many compliments in my entire life, even though I've

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always felt encouraged and affirmed by the people around me.

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But for that to happen on such a wide international stage,

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it was very bizarre and it's a strange thing for

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anyone to have to deal with.

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I think from that point to Abbey Road working on

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vocals for a big movie, right, was there a moment

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where you're in the studio, maybe on your own, maybe

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you got there whatever, nobody was there, just a moment

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and you sat, WHOA.

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You know, I wish I had been able to stop

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and take it in a little more than I did.

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I think maybe part of that was the jet lag.

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I mean I arrived in London and then I think

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we got to work the very next day and this

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guy was one of the engineers, was taking me around

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the different studios in Abbey Road, is like, here's here's

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the day in the life piano here's where they did

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all the strings for you know whatever song. And I'm

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just like blurry eyed, and I'm like, this is surreal,

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this is crazy, And I got a job to do

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right now. I got to hunker down and stare at

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a huge TV screen with with Freddy's waveform on it

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and try to match it as perfectly as possible for

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the next six to eight hours. And so it was

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a real whirlwind for me working at Abbey Road. They

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had me wearing this like big headgear thing, and I

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was watching the movie kind of raw and unedited, and

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it was a really really cool experience. I've never gotten

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to do that before. Just hanging out with people in

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the Hollywood scene was so other than anything I'd ever

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experienced before. And Romy's just a really down to earth

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stand stand up guy. I remember one night we were

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sitting at the hotel bar where we were staying and

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some one of the bartender who's making you know, pretty

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high end cocktails, talked to one of the ladies that

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was at our table kind of rudely, and she came

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back and was like, well, that guy was kind of

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rude to me. And Robbie just stands up and goes

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to talk. He told him off, It's like, you better

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treat my guests better than that, buddy. So that was

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really impressed with him.

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All right, So you got something incredible coming up this Saturday,

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February the twenty eighth at the Wilshere Evile Theater here

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in LA And for somebody listening to you right now

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who hasn't maybe seen you live, what kind of night

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are there walking into?

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So what we've been hinting at so far is it

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is a Queen tribute show essentially, but it's a little

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bit of a different take on that. If you've ever

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seen a Queen tribute then I'm willing to bet there's

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a good chance as you saw like a yellowjacket at

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some point, and great costumes and you know, something reminiscent

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of their Wembley performance or live aid or whatever it

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might be, which is great, and there's definitely a time

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and a place for that. But for me, I've always

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wanted to I never imagined myself. As much as I

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love singing other people's music if it moves me as

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an artist, I always want to be myself on stage

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and let the music speak for itself. And that's what

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we do. We just become on stage as ourselves. It's

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as energetic of a performance as you would expect for

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a performance of Queen's catalog. And I get to tell

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because I don't pretend to be Freddie, I'm just myself.

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I take that opportunity to tell a bit of my

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story and how my life intersected with Queen. And it's

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a strange story that I could have never written, and

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it happened. And it gives me an opportunity to encourage

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young by artists who maybe come from a part of

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the world or a part of the country that they

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don't really see any inroads to do what they're really

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passionate about. I grew up singing in church in Quebec.

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I didn't know a single professional musician growing up. Yet

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here I am now, I've lived in Nashville for twenty

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five years. I'm doing what I love and couldn't be

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happier doing it. The world loves Queen, so thankfully. It's

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challenging music. It keeps me challenged every night every time

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I step on stage. I've got an incredible band. I

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think we sound better than any Queen tribute out there,

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and it's a great time, no matter what generation you

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come from, kids, grandparents, all have a blast. There's something

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for everyone. It's a great night.

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Be that you grew up in the eighties. Who is

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your favorite artist if you have one.

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Oh, man, I mean George Michael's definitely top three. I was,

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of course big into Michael Jackson. I went through a

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pretty big big Richard Marx Faz. The first song I

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ever heard on the radio that I that I just

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learned by ear on the piano was right here waiting,

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So that was a big one for me. New kids

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on the block, you're probably just a little too over

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that that. They hit me right at the right age.

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So you know the way I got in contact with you,

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And I just can't not mention a young lady by

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the name of Anna Friesan because she is one of

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the admins of a fan club on Facebook called the

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International Mark Martel Fan Club. So I just wanted to

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mention her because thanks to her, I got to meet

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someone else's are very important, Derek, who got me in

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contact with you. So shout out Anna, Yeah, shout out

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to Anna. And aside from that, ladies and gentlemen, you

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just heard Mark Martel again. He's live. This coming Saturday,

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00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:55.839
February the twenty eighth at the Wilshare Eble Theater here

479
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:57.920
in La And if you love Queen and if you

480
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:02.200
love that eighties arena energy, you gotta go see it live.

481
00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:04.720
It's a whole different experience in the room with the

482
00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:08.360
amazing Mark Martell. Huge success on Saturday. Mark, thank you

483
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:10.920
for being here on the Back to the Eighties radio show.

484
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:14.079
Thank you for having me, Mario. Great questions, by the way.

485
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:16.599
I love it when it's not just the same old questions.

486
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:16.719
All the time.

487
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:19.440
I appreciate it. I had my arsenal, I've got take two.

488
00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:21.440
If those didn't work, I had something that would make

489
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:23.280
you cry. But I said, now, this is a happy

490
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:24.280
week for you, So why not.

491
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.639
See you in a few days.

492
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:33.000
You're listening to Back to the Eighties day, you.

493
00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:35.159
Girl, the dam a Fantasia for sure.

494
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.960
You know Tuesdays have been a total bummer, no place

495
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:39.199
to go, nothing to do.

496
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:40.559
You know, not anymore.

497
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.880
I'm freaking out your favorite new way every Tuesday at.

498
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:48.639
Fantasia, Beevo, the motels, the Go Go's, the card missing Furthens.

499
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:50.400
The please like totally for sure.

500
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:51.719
For sure, every.

501
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.719
Tuesday Fantasia is letting me give away some of the

502
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:54.920
records I play.

503
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:56.519
The best sticks to the past count It's like.

504
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.280
The motels of the Universal Amphitheater.

505
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.119
I'm freaking out for sure.

506
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:08.320
With the magaphone, A new Ways this Tuesday and every Tuesday, Fantasia, Third.

507
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:11.559
Level, Bonaventure Hotel six eight nine four seven seven seven.

508
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:16.480
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm shadowing Stevens and you must listen

509
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:18.440
to Back to the Eighties Radio.

510
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:19.800
It's the law.

511
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.519
Welcome back to Back to the eighties Radio with Tuscano

512
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:31.440
and Chang. Do you remember some of the global events,

513
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:35.679
the political events that were semi catastrophes for us here

514
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:39.039
in America, the States? Do you recall some of the

515
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:42.880
cross eyed so called leaders that we had back then,

516
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:46.119
which were a lot better than this cat Ronald Trump. Yeah,

517
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:50.320
there's another one, Ronald Rump. Well, let me first say

518
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:57.320
my deepest apologies for breaking into the show. But hold empty. No, Nancy,

519
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:01.039
I don't want to God Damn Bill, you give in.

520
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:04.519
He's playing with Michael Jackson's monkey.

521
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:07.480
I got to be honest with you. I didn't care

522
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.079
at all for politics. I do remember, though, being during

523
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:16.679
that time and listening to Ronald Reagan talk about the

524
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:19.440
war on drugs, and his wife, Nancy talked about the

525
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:23.400
war on drugs. And you know, but you had people

526
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:25.599
that were with him and you had people that were

527
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:29.119
against them, Like with every you know, every time you

528
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:33.480
have a president. He never talked bad about immigrants, totally

529
00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:39.000
the contrary. This was a Republican who accepted immigrants and

530
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:44.679
knew the value of immigrants. And that's the most that

531
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:48.519
I know of politics. Brother, So that's why I can't

532
00:36:48.599 --> 00:36:51.400
go too much into it. I do, though, I will

533
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:55.920
say this though, I did admire when I heard about

534
00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:59.400
Ronald Reagan and Nancy and their monkey Bonzo.

535
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.320
Oh exactly. Now, I'm going to tell you I did

536
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.159
not like what he did for social security back in

537
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.360
California and as president, but I will tell you he

538
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:14.599
was a very big spokesman for immigration. He knew the

539
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.320
true essence of what this country was supposed to be.

540
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:20.599
I think back in the eighties people were a bit

541
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:24.960
more open into politics because we were very climbing out

542
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.440
of the Decade of Equality. We had a lot of

543
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:31.519
civil rights movements, we had a lot of change in politics.

544
00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.519
Ronald Reagan hadad is good. I will tell you that

545
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:41.719
he had great communications with other countries. He had good

546
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:45.320
foreign policies. There were certain things that he stumbled upon.

547
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:46.639
He wasn't a saint.

548
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.800
What would you say is the biggest experience from the

549
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.159
nineteen eighties that you missed today that we just don't

550
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:54.880
have anymore today.

551
00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:57.159
I could think of two right off the top of

552
00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.800
my hat. The first one would probably be watching Monday

553
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:04.400
night football with my dad and the news of the

554
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.519
killing of John Lennon, who was an IDL, a mentor

555
00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:12.760
of mine, his music, his message which I tried to

556
00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:16.679
set in concrete in my own standings in life. I

557
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:20.000
believe in the moral code. I don't believe in political parties.

558
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:23.599
I think they're corrupt, they're greedy, and they lie. So

559
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:28.000
the death of him was very catastrophic on my young

560
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.519
mind and I'll never forget. Once we heard the news,

561
00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:33.559
I was with my dad. I ran into the back room,

562
00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:35.840
and I was already fourteen years old. I was a

563
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.800
bit older. And my mom came in and she goes,

564
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:41.519
did I hear that right? And I ran to her

565
00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:44.000
and I hugged her. Because it wasn't for my mom,

566
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:46.039
I wouldn't know music whatsoever.

567
00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:46.400
I was.

568
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:49.559
My whole life was based upon a music bed and

569
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.880
that came from my mother and my father. I ran

570
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:54.559
my mom and I hugged her and I was crying,

571
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:57.960
and I said, Mom, I'm afraid the world is not

572
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:01.880
going to be the same anymore. I'm afraid now, I

573
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.159
don't think that everything you and my dad believed in

574
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.840
is going to happen anymore, because why would they kill him,

575
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:10.679
Why would anybody want to kill him? He was a

576
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:14.719
good man, He spoke the truth. Now that hit me

577
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:18.000
like a ton of bricks between the eyes, because I

578
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:21.559
felt I'm now going into a world as a young

579
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:26.440
adult to where people who made people feel good with

580
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:31.559
music and words of truth was another individual. To me

581
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:34.519
that was taken, just like Malcolm X and Martin Luther

582
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:38.599
King and the Kennedys. Felt that that was a finalization

583
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:45.920
of anybody trying to promote equality peace. So I took

584
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.840
that very hard, and I went into my teenage years

585
00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:51.079
a bit angry and wondering what was going to go

586
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:54.719
on in the world. The second thing that hit me

587
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:57.159
was the death of my best friend in the later eighties.

588
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.800
I had witnessed death like we all do when we're younger,

589
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:04.639
but we don't quite understand it or the finality and

590
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.760
the magnitude is going to have on you when you're

591
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:11.400
a bit older with family. You know, when you're younger,

592
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:14.599
you always anticipate that a family member is going to die,

593
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.639
but it doesn't really impact you that much. As you're young,

594
00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:22.079
you don't understand the concept. In eighty five, when my

595
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.880
best friend was killed, that was the first kick in

596
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:28.000
the balls that I got that this is life. You know,

597
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:31.360
this is over. I'm never going to see this individual again.

598
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.599
This is going to mold my life because it made

599
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.360
me both angry with the great spirit, it made me

600
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:42.400
angry with the ways of the world, and it also

601
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:46.639
scared me to a point to where I knew I

602
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:50.760
was not invincible. But my anger and my ego carried

603
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:53.880
me to do things and test the waters way farther

604
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:58.440
than I should not have. So that also changed my life.

605
00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:00.719
And he clips me at a certain point, you know,

606
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.480
because most people would be scared shit and try to

607
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:06.960
walk the straight line.

608
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:08.039
Yeah.

609
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:11.559
I understood the finality, I understood the magnitude, but my

610
00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:15.760
anger carried me another path. I rebelled like crazy, and

611
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:18.199
I'll tell you right now, I am lucky. I'm alive.

612
00:41:18.280 --> 00:41:20.000
To be sitting here with you and doing the show.

613
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.639
I'm lucky to be alive, to have my children, my grandchildren.

614
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:26.960
I'm lucky to be alive for whatever reasons other than

615
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.679
I'd mentioned to be alive because of that.

616
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:37.760
I'm Captain Loggin signor Ronald Cruz. You're listening to Back

617
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:38.880
to the eighties.

618
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:41.960
Rodney, Dangerfield and Jim Shoulders for light beer from Miller.

619
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:42.719
Rodney.

620
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:44.960
It's amazing what a few days in Texas has done

621
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:45.199
to you.

622
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.800
Are you kidding tires to be a city slicker? You,

623
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:50.159
I'll give me a home where a taxi cares rome

624
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.719
you know what I mean? Yeah, And I'll tell you, Jim,

625
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.480
My neighborhood is tough too. Well, the kids play cowboys

626
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.079
and Indians. They don't take prisoners.

627
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:59.559
Well, let's billy up to the bar for a life there.

628
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:03.519
Light beer, sure, Rodney, real Okay, boys drink live beer

629
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:04.000
from Miller.

630
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:06.880
Taste great and he's less feeling, and you don't want

631
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:07.559
to be filled up.

632
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:08.639
When you have to ride in the ring.

633
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:11.559
Me riding rings. One of the closest I ever got

634
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:13.880
to a horse was a two dollar window. Now I'm

635
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.000
a riding fool.

636
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:18.280
Oh yeah, Hey, boys, I got a rider for the

637
00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:19.119
mechanical bull.

638
00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:21.400
Right, it's mechanical bull.

639
00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:23.320
Probably won't even be a challenge for you.

640
00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:25.360
I'll tell you what maybe later.

641
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.639
Huh No, I can't Why not.

642
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:30.239
Rodney, I can't move.

643
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:31.920
My spurs are stuck in the floor.

644
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:35.159
I light beer from Miller everything you always wanted in.

645
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:39.119
The beer and less Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now,

646
00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:42.079
Ladies and gentlemen, is the part of the show where

647
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:44.079
we talk about what made us angry back in the

648
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:47.679
nineteen eighties, and in honor of the most sublime chang,

649
00:42:48.599 --> 00:42:54.280
we are calling them chang grease. So Chang give me

650
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.400
things that made you chang grey back in the eighties

651
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.239
and things that make you changry from today.

652
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:05.400
You know what made me changry back in the nineteen

653
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:09.559
eighties was that inserting my quarter in a pinball machine

654
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:11.599
and it kept falling through so I couldn't play the

655
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:12.199
damn game.

656
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.519
You know what made me changry back in the nineteen eighties?

657
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:18.920
Be kind, rewind or recharge your fifty sex.

658
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:21.719
You know what made me changry back in the nineteen eighties?

659
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.440
What was that benny twenty five dollars on pac man

660
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:29.440
and never ever painting by score woh.

661
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:31.760
You know what made me changry back in the nineteen

662
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:39.039
eighties tangled cassette takes and having no pencil to wind

663
00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:40.880
it up except for your pinky.

664
00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:43.800
You know what made me angry back in the nineteen eighties?

665
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:46.480
Lamor metal?

666
00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:50.239
Yeah, I knew, I knew the hater would have to

667
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:50.559
come out.

668
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:51.519
I'm straight TUTSI.

669
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:56.440
You know what made me changry as my last changree

670
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:02.360
back in the nineteen eighties, stretch the phone cord all

671
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:05.760
the way down to the closet and then having the

672
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.360
phone slip out of my hand and almost breaking or

673
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:13.599
killing somebody on the way back to its rightful place.

674
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:19.159
You know what makes me changr nowadays? Too many penalty

675
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:21.239
calls in the NFL, and.

676
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:24.320
That, ladies and gentlemen, has been this week's chang grease.

677
00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:27.320
If you have a changree of back in the nineteen

678
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:29.000
eighties or of today and you'd like to share it

679
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:31.119
with us, go ahead and send us a little note.

680
00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:35.400
Write to us at FM eighties Radio at gmail dot com,

681
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.639
and we'll be more than happy to read your commentary

682
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:43.039
on the air. By the way, changing just as a

683
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:46.840
little side note, a special shout out to Anna Friesen

684
00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:51.800
from the International Mark Martel Fanclub and thanks for being

685
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:57.639
that bridge between us and Mark Martel, you know on

686
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:02.239
behalf of Toscano here and maybe the eighties weren't better.

687
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:07.039
Maybe we just moved slower. Maybe experiences felt bigger because

688
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:10.480
we had to work for them. Either way, maybe just

689
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:12.239
maybe we don't need.

690
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:12.840
To go backward.

691
00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:15.199
We just need to bring a little bit of that

692
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:20.159
intention forward. See you next week on behalf of the

693
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.679
one and Only Back to the Eighties Radio.

694
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.639
I'm going to have to take a brief break and

695
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:33.079
say audio saba erci aslavista asiluego a whole Sayonada bye bye,

696
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:53.960
and to all my homies out there, ye

697
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:00.880
Bo